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TRAJSCRIPT C BONG KONG SELECT CONNITTER NEETING 22 MAR 89
FOREIG】 CECRETARY (CONT):
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Despite that, we introduced them as
we have described, and
they were equally cautious in their view about direct elections, but agalu We have brought them into place as we have described it
and we have now got to the position where the draft Basic Law
provides for the Legislature to be composed of directly and
indirectly-elected seuls and that the principle of universal
suffrage is now enshrined in the draft Basic Law.
QÜKSITION:
If we are less worried about their resistance to democracy,
is this not the time to try to get an early date for the eventual
introduction of universal suffrage, as is portended in the new
draft of the Basic Law, and is it not also an opportunity for us
to try to get direct elections before 19917
POREIGN SECRETARY:
I think the point to notice is that the pace of evolution of
the system has been in line with what most Hong Kong people
probably want as well. There is an awareness of opinion in Hong
Kong of Chinese opinion and of Hong Kong's opinion in China.
And
my impression is that what has happened has been an evolution of thinking amongst all parties accepting the kind of pattern and
Lidèscale that to bere cet mit.
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